Federated identity brokering

a federated identity and brokering technology, applied in the field of brokering federated identities, can solve the problems of unmanageable credential formats, unfavorable use of canonical credentials by large sets of providers, and complex handling of credential formats and their associated trust relationships,

Inactive Publication Date: 2009-08-25
INT BUSINESS MASCH CORP
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Notably, when accessing a single Web service provider, the credential format can be manageable problem.
In contrast, handling with credential formats and their associated trust relationships can become an acute and complex problem when attempting to federate an arbitrarily large set of Web services providers.
Notwithstanding, the use of a canonical form of credentials can become unwieldy for large sets of providers.

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[0015]The present invention is a method, system and apparatus for federated identity brokering. In accordance with the present invention, a credential processing gateway can be disposed between one or more logical services and one or more service requesting clients in a computer communications network. Acting as a proxy and a trusted authority to the logical services, the credential processing gateway can map the credentials of the service requesting clients to the certification requirements of the logical services. In this way, the credential processing gateway can act as a federated identity broker in providing identity certification services for a multitude of different service requesting clients without requiring the logical services to include a pre-configuration for specifically processing the credentials of particular service requesting clients.

[0016]In further illustration of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of a service ...

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A method, system and apparatus for federated identity brokering. In accordance with the present invention, a credential processing gateway can be disposed between one or more logical services and one or more service requesting clients in a computer communications network. Acting as a proxy and a trusted authority to the logical services, the credential processing gateway can map the credentials of the service requesting clients to the certification requirements of the logical services. In this way, the credential processing gateway can act as a federated identity broker in providing identity certification services for a multitude of different service requesting clients without requiring the logical services to include a pre-configuration for specifically processing the credentials of particular service requesting clients.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Statement of the Technical Field[0002]The present invention relates to federated identity management, and more particularly to brokering federated identities in a computer communications network.[0003]2. Description of the Related Art[0004]Logical services such as Web services represent the leading edge of distributed computing and are viewed as the foundation for developing a truly universal model for supporting the rapid development of component-based applications over the World Wide Web. Web services are known in the art to include a stack of emerging standards that describe a service-oriented, component-based application architecture. Specifically, Web services are loosely coupled, reusable software components that semantically encapsulate discrete functionality and are distributed and programmatically accessible over standard Internet protocols.[0005]Conceptually, Web services represent a model in which discrete tasks within processes are dis...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): H04L29/12H04L29/06H04L29/04H04L69/14
CPCH04L63/0823H04L29/06H04L9/40
Inventor ATKINS, BARRY D.MELGAR, DAVID O.NADALIN, ANTHONYWESLEY, AJAMU A.
Owner INT BUSINESS MASCH CORP
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